Couples' Health: Emotional Intelligence, Communication, and Conflict Resolution: Two Case Studies

Abstract

Introduction: Emotional development as a category of research work and its dynamics in the couple relationship are the central axis of this socialization of results that allows us to tell two stories of their development that contribute to human development. Emotional intelligence is considered from the theory of Mayer and Salovey, a currently valid theory from its four axes of work and related to the way of communicating and conflict resolution.Emotional intelligence understood as "the ability to perceive, assess and express emotions accurately, the ability to access and/or generate feelings that facilitate thought; the ability to understand emotions and emotional knowledge and the ability to regulate emotions promoting emotional and intellectual growth" Mayer and Salovey. This research answers the RESEARCH QUESTION: How do Emotional Intelligence,OBJECTIVES: To analyze the development of emotional intelligence, communication, and conflict resolution in couple relationships in two case studies using qualitative techniques that allow for the proposal of strategies that contribute to adaptive conflict resolution, based on the management of emotional intelligence and communication. - To describe emotional intelligence in two couples through a semi-structured interview, a visual analysis, and a documentary analysis, divided into the past, present, and future of the couples' life cycle